Welt-attaching machine



No. 618,027; Patented'lan. l7, I899.

P. A. CUUPAL 8:. W. GORDON.

WELT ATTACHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Oct. 8, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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lllER A. CCYLTPAL AND YVILLIAM GORDON, OF BOSTOX, MASSACHUSETTS.

WELT-ATTACWNG MACl-HNE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,027, dated January 17, 1899. Application filed October 8, 1897- Serial No, 654,491. (No model.)

To all wit mt it 72mg concern/.-

Be it known that we, PETER A. COlIPAL and "WILLIAM GORDON, of Boston, in the county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to the manufacture of welted boots and shoes, and has for its ob ject to facilitate the proper attachment of the welt tothe'upper and inner sole of a boot or shoe and to insure the uniform projection of the welt from all parts of the edge of the inner solo.

The invention consists in the improvements which we will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of he accompanying drawings, for i g part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspective view showing the parts of a welt-attachingmachine and portions of the upper, inner sole, and welt of a boot or shoe. Fig. 2 represents an elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures.

In the drawings, a represents the upper, b

the inner sole, and c the welt, of a welted boot or shoe. It is the practice to temporarily connect thenpper and inner sole during the lash ing operation by lastiiigtacks (Z or otherwise, and then to secure the welt to the upper and in nor solo by means of a suitable welt-attaching machine. The attaching-machine, which may either secure the welt by means of stitches or by independent fastening-s, such through which the welt passes; but heretofore no adequate means have been provided for guiding the partially-completed boot or shoe in such manner as to enable the operator to accurately locate the welt thereon and insure its uniform projection from all parts.

of the edge of the inner sole, the operator having to rely, mainly upon his eye for the proper location of the welt.

In carrying out our invention we temperarily attach to the parti. lly-completed boot or shoe a sole-shaped guide f, which is of smaller area than the inner sole, and presents an edge f, which is substantially parallel with the edge of the inner sole. ject-s outwardly from the portion of the upper that is drawn over upon the face of the inner sole to form a shoulder, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, adapted to bear firmly against a gage g, affixed to the welt-attaching machine, said gage having a fixed relation to the weltgnide, so that the operator by pressing the guide f against the gage g is enabled to insure the proper location of the welt with relation to the upper and inner sole. The sole-shaped guide 1 is preferably tacked or otherwise detachably secured to the inner sole and is here shown as separated from the inner sole by inea'ns of an interposed block h, secured by rivets f 1 to the guide f, the taelrj, which secures the guide f to the inner sole, passing through said block h. desirable to provide the guide f with two or more of the blocks h and attach the guide to the inner sole at two or more points. The guide f may, however, be attached to the partially-completed boot or shoe in any other suitable manner.

We have here shown a portion of a machine adapted to secure the welt by means of staples 7;, the machine having a nose or throat 172., through which the staples are forced into the welt, upper, and inner sole by means 0 a suitable driver. I

It is obvious that instead of' providing a special part for the gage 5 said gage may comprise any suitable surface or shoulder on the machine,-and may, if desired, be one of the edges of the welt-guide c, it being obvious that in the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the guide f if made somewhat larger than here shown, would bear against the adjacent edge'of the welt-guide.

- It is essential that the operative or guiding face of the gagev shall be located between the sole-shaped guide and the path of movement of the welt, for the reason that the sole-shaped guide, being 'of smaller areathan the inner The guidefprolnpraetice it wil he.

0f the Welt-guide e, the said guide-face is still and adapted to bear against the outer edge of said. sole-shaped guide.

In testimony whereof We have signed our [5 names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 4th day of I October, A. D. 1897.

PETER A. COUPAL. WILLIAM GORDON.

located between the sole-shaped guide and the path of movement of the welt. vVe oiaim- The combination with a welt-attaching machine having a nose or throat for the attaching devices and having also a Welt-guide, of a sole-shaped guide adapted to be connected With a partially-completed boot or shoe so as to be moved therewith, and a gage having a guiding-face located between the sole-shaped guide and the path of movement of the Welt 'itnesses:

G. F. BROWN, A. D. HARRISON. 

